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Over the last 10 years, if you had simply preserved your wealth, that would be considered achievement. But are these last 10 years unusual? A longer term perspective shows that actual real returns earned by investors, on average, have been pretty...
Over the years, I have often been asked about whether a registered representative can borrow money from clients (or in a few cases, lend money to). The answer is either Yes, but or No, but and what comes after that makes all the difference in the...
It's amazing how empirical data can provide you with a blinding glimpse of the obvious. Our most recent study tells us that today's affluent consider it extremely important that their primary financial advisors provide unbiased financial advice...
How do you ferret out unscrupulous financial advisors and bar them from ripping off the public? It sounds fairly easy, actually. After all, the securities industry has established the equivalent of a permanent record, the U4 and U5; the forms are...
Should Wall Street's wirehouse foursome be getting ready for another round of broker-driven class action lawsuits? According to Mark Thierman, yes, they should. Thierman, who led and settled a series of broker overtime suits against the major...
Brokers Facing Life in Jail: Eric Butler, a 37-year old former Credit Suisse broker, was convicted in August of fraudulently selling hundreds of millions of dollars in subprime securities to corporate clients in order to generate excess...
How much money did your clients lose last year? As has been well documented, investors lost trillions of dollars in 2008. It didn't have to be this way. You could have followed a simple, defensive investment approach that would have spared your...
As the psychologist and performance coach to countless financial advisors, the pressures of being actively engaged in other people's lives can certainly take its toll on me. So at the end of every summer, I take my wife out to Montauk on Long...